{"id":12841,"date":"2010-03-06T00:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/03\/06\/quango.html"},"modified":"2010-03-06T00:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T08:16:20","slug":"quango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/03\/06\/quango\/","title":{"rendered":"quango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quango\">quango<\/a>, also spelled qango, is an acronym for \"quasi non-governmental organization\" or \"quasi-autonomous NGO.\" Looks like the term is fairly common in the UK and elsewhere, but I don't think I had ever heard it before.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out that quango, also spelled qango, is an acronym for &#8220;quasi non-governmental organization&#8221; or &#8220;quasi-autonomous NGO.&#8221; Looks like the term is fairly common in the UK and elsewhere, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acronyms","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}